A final-year student and activist of Bangladesh Chhatra League was hacked to death by cadres of Islami Chhatra Shibir at Rajshahi University early yesterday.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has said Bangladeshi workers will now be sent to Kuwait through a selection committee and understanding between the two governments, so that the Gulf country could recruit law-abiding good workers.

The ruling Awami League-led 14-party leaders yesterday voiced concern over violence, tender manipulations and admission trade in the name of student politics, and asked the government to act immediately to arrest the alarming trends.

At least six police personnel were killed and 23 others injured after a police van collided with a speeding bus on Natore-Rajshahi Highway in Sadar upazila of Natore yesterday afternoon.

Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina yesterday said her government would spare none of those responsible for violence in Dhaka and Rajshahi Universities, irrespective of their political identity.

A Dhaka court yesterday issued an arrest warrant against one of the directors of Adflame Pharmaceuticals who is charged with adulteration of paracetamol syrup 18 years ago.

The admission committee for honours 2009-2010 session of Kabi Nazrul College has sent a rejoinder to a report of The Daily Star's February 7 issue headlined Admission Trade Nets Tk 1 Crore in 3 Colleges.

Motorbike riding armed muggers shot and killed a rice trader in Babubazar of the capital yesterday and sped away with about Tk 10 lakh robbed from the victim in broad daylight.

After an interval of about three months, Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha yesterday resumed its demolition drive.

Cadres, allegedly of Awami League, prevented contractors from submitting bids for development work valued at Tk 15 crore in Patuakhali University of Science and Technology in Dumki upazila yesterday.

The death of Faruk Hossain at Rajshahi University shattered the hopes of a poor family who was dreaming to come out from the vicious poverty cycle with the achievement of their only son.

The parliament resumes sitting today while BNP-led opposition lawmakers are likely to return to the House tomorrow after skipping the House for 64 consecutive sittings since last June.

The BNP yesterday alleged that a certain intelligence agency was assisting the government in plotting a conspiracy to implicate BNP Senior Vice-Chairman Tarique Rahman in the 10-truck arms haul case in Chittagong.

Two criminals last night shot and killed councillor Ahamad Hossain of Dhaka City Corporation Ward-70 as he was leaving Alubazar Masjid on Hajji Osman Gani Road at Bangshal in the capital.

Cadres, allegedly of Awami League, prevented contractors from submitting bids for development work valued at Tk 15 crore in Patuakhali University of Science and Technology in Dumki upazila yesterday.

The High Court verdict for stopping stone extraction by using excavators from the bed of three rivers in Sylhet remained upheld, as the Supreme Court yesterday passed "no order" on a petition against the verdict.

Climate change is not just a matter of the future as people in different parts of the country are already facing its consequences.

The power ministry today seeks the cabinet purchase committee's approval for awarding contracts for five public sector dual fuel power projects having a total production capacity of 350 megawatt to different contractors, sources said.

The government yesterday recommended withdrawal of 659 more "politically motivated" legal cases, including five in connection with corruption, filed during consecutive regimes of the BNP-Jamaat-led alliance and immediate past caretaker governments.

Two dyeing and printing companies in Keraniganj were each fined Tk 50,000 yesterday for discharging toxic liquid waste and dumping rubbish into the Buriganga River.

Robbers looted a residence at East Goran in the city's Khilgaon and killed an elderly woman of the family yesterday.

The autopsy of the body lying at Faridpur Medical College morgue for three days was completed yesterday following a directive from the higher authorities.

Owners of ten stalls at Amar Ekushey Boi Mela yesterday complained to the fair authorities that books and products of their stalls were stolen on Monday night.

Pakistan is looking to adopt a tough stance over India's offer to resume foreign secretary level talks, as it is worried about engaging New Delhi in 'open-ended' talks, diplomatic sources said.